Crime and Punishment p.1 (w/ Dr. Katherine Bowers)
Major themes: Poking at a rotten tooth, Razumikhin the Superman, The Drunkards
The Polykhaevs by Nilin (w/ Dr. Ian Garner)
Major themes: Rehabilitating Socialist Realism, Memories of Stalingrad, Brick-layers
Father Sergius by Tolstoy
Major themes: Tolstoy Horny on Main, Saint’s Lives, The History of the Alhambra
Cement p.2 by Gladkov
Major themes: Practicality vs. Idealism, Sometimes Side-Characters are the Real Main Characters, Ambivalence
Cement p.1 by Gladkov
Major themes: Committees, Simple-hearted, working-class political commissars, Gender roles